2011 in review: Pimentel "put on blast" during Jan. 18 council meeting, subsidies revealed for Petrovich

During the January 18 Woodland City Council meeting, Pamela Bird-Dunn expressed her disappointment in city councilman Art Pimentel on behalf of the Woodland community's African-American Steering Committee. Bird-Dunn said that Pimentel has not come through on some promises in his role as mayor. City staff later recommended that the city council adopt a proclamation recognizing African-American History Month during the February 1 council meeting.


From the Woodland Record:

This is the second in a series of articles that will review a year of civic planning in the City of Woodland. In January, concurrent to a city council meeting held on Jan. 18, it was revealed by the Woodland Record that the City of Woodland was letting a Petrovich riverfront property slip under the radar during public sessions about the Woodland Davis Clean Water Agency (WDCWA) surface water project.

The outing by the Record prompted a Petrovich press release the next day that claimed he will give the city a deal on the property needed for an alternative intake facility. The release wasn't sent to the Record, but to the Daily Democrat, so we were delighted to call attention to irregulaties in Petrovich's stories.

See "Petrovich sends press release, price tag for two Woodland parcels now comes to $2,500,100," published January 19:

In an obvious response to the Woodland Record article "Council agenda item fails to reveal another city partnership with Petrovich land" published Monday night, Sacramento developer Paul Petrovich has issued a press release to announce he will sell an up-to-this-point secret 19.1 acre parcel to the City of Woodland for only $100. That brings the total of that parcel and his I-5 onramp parcel purchased by the city last year to $2,500,100."

In the press release published by the Daily Democrat called "$100 for Woodland water intake site" (concocted by the cub reporter Geoff Johnson) Petrovich was quoted: "When I got Gateway rezoned, (the city) required me to reinvest in the downtown. Nobody does that. So I bought the Third and Main property to try and stimulate the downtown, and everybody thinks there's some big thing down there." Third and Main is the location of his proposed multiplex - at the site of the historic Electric Garage building.

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